{"id":4643,"date":"2024-04-07T09:37:24","date_gmt":"2024-04-07T09:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=4643"},"modified":"2024-04-07T09:37:26","modified_gmt":"2024-04-07T09:37:26","slug":"i-collaborate-with-artistes-i-have-personal-connection-with-including-kwesi-arthur-joeboy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=4643","title":{"rendered":"I collaborate with artistes I have personal connection with including Kwesi Arthur \u2013 Joeboy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Popular Nigerian Afrobeat artiste, Joeboy has disclosed that he collaborates with Ghanaian rapper Kwesi Arthur because of a personal connection.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The\u00a0two\u00a0have\u00a0so\u00a0far\u00a0worked\u00a0together\u00a0on\u00a0two\u00a0songs:\u00a0\u201cDoor,\u201d\u00a0which\u00a0Joeboy\u00a0featured\u00a0Kwesi\u00a0Arthur,\u00a0and\u00a0\u201cBaajo,\u201d\u00a0which the\u00a0Ghanaian\u00a0rapper featured Joeboy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking in an interview with Chrystal Kwame-Aryee on 3FM Drive on April 4, the \u2018Alcohol\u2019 stated that he exclusively works with artists with whom he is personally acquainted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt wasn\u2019t even an intentional thing. So for me, I like to create music with people that I connect with on a personal level, like, almost all, like, even when I and Kwesi Arthur did \u2018Baadjo\u2019, he\u2019s my kind of person, we could have conversations for hours without having anything major to talk about,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Joseph Akinwale Akinfenwa-Donus popularly known as Joeboy stressed the need of having a personal relationship with the artists he works with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt is hard for me to come across people like that in the music industry. Almost everybody I have a song with, even till now are people that I can connect with on a personal level. These are people that I talk to on a regular,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Joeboy also highlighted some benefits&nbsp;that new media (social media) has brought to the music industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He recalled how he was discovered by Mr. Eazi through social media stressing that the platform has broken some barriers in the music industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI feel like social media has broken the dodge, you know like at first there used to be gatekeepers in the industry that if this person does not accept or acknowledge you, you are not going to make it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNow all of a sudden you can just get into the industry by just posting a cover or a song of yourself singing randomly on your bed and next thing is it is getting millions of views and everybody wants to work with you and connect with you,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uploads.files.3news.com\/2024\/04\/arthur-joeboy.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular Nigerian Afrobeat artiste, Joeboy has disclosed that he collaborates with Ghanaian rapper Kwesi Arthur because of a personal connection. The\u00a0two\u00a0have\u00a0so\u00a0far\u00a0worked\u00a0together\u00a0on\u00a0two\u00a0songs:\u00a0\u201cDoor,\u201d\u00a0which\u00a0Joeboy\u00a0featured\u00a0Kwesi\u00a0Arthur,\u00a0and\u00a0\u201cBaajo,\u201d\u00a0which the\u00a0Ghanaian\u00a0rapper featured Joeboy. Speaking in an interview with Chrystal Kwame-Aryee on 3FM Drive on April 4, the \u2018Alcohol\u2019 stated that he exclusively works with artists with whom he is personally acquainted. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,41],"tags":[1527,1528],"class_list":["post-4643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-general-news","tag-joeboy","tag-kwesi-arthur-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4645,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4643\/revisions\/4645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}